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The Central, Eastern and South-Eastern British Cycling regions joined forces on Sunday the 19th of August to put on this year’s Regional Road Race Championships on a long and fairly hilly circuit near Edenbridge in Kent. Despite the length of the circuit, due to limits on permitted distance in races where junior and senior riders…

2017’s Rapha CC men’s race inspired not one but two new races this year using the same Strethall circuit – CC London’s superb women’s RR earlier in the year and, building on last year’s success, the new Rapha CC Women’s RR on the 12th of August… Women’s cycling has developed enormously in the last decade…

The ever-popular Cheddington circuit squeezes a fine selection of terrains into only a few kilometres and offers something for everyone, whick once again proved a big draw: with entries on the line, organisers were proud to find themselves with very nearly a full field – bot bad at all considering only a couple of weeks…

Following recent scorching temperatures, slightly cooler conditions were welcomed by the riders taking part in the Duncan Murray Wines round of the Women’s Team Series. That, combined with a rolling circuit, made early breakaways a likely prospect and the peloton made sure the pace was cranked up high right from the off to prevent anyone…

Following the Junior Men’s Championship in the morning, the top Junior Women gathered at Witham on the Hill in Lincolnshire for their second ever National Championships excellent organised by Mark Botteley and Bourne Wheelers following the success of their Junior Road Races in 2017. It had been hot all morning; as temperatures continued to climb…

With the always-popular (and deceptively testing) Great Cressingham course which has hosted this race for the last four years made unavailable by road works, VC Norwich had to make a last minute decision to switch their annual women’s road race over to the much shorter and flatter Croxton course in the depths of Thetford Forest:…

This Sunday will see the third edition of the CiCLE Classic Women’s Road Race and the second since its elevation to an HSBC UK Women’s National Road Series race. The race is based on the highly successful UCI 1.2 men’s race and includes all the key challenges of the off-road sectors, but excludes the two…